SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

The idea that rural Africans are self-sufficient subsistence farmers who grow what they eat and eat what they grow was only ever partly true. But it is becoming less relevant with each passing year.

Ayuk emphasized, however, that distributed generation and microgrids are not sole solution to Africa's energy poverty, which he described as a complex challenge requiring multifaceted approaches — ...

For millions of Africans today, doing homework by candlelight like Malamba did remains a present-day reality. So is spending ...

It is well documented that women small-scale farmers are hard done by in an environment where they farm without security of tenure, which inhibits their ability to raise finance with which to grow ...

The causes of rural poverty are complex and multidimensional. They involve, among other things, culture, climate, gender, markets, and public policy. Likewise, the rural poor are quite diverse both in ...

UNITED NATIONS — More than 1 billion people in the world live in acute poverty, over half are children and nearly 40% live in conflict-torn and fragile countries, according to a report released ...

Bradley Devlin is politics editor for The Daily Signal. Send an email to Bradley. I wrote a piece for The Daily Signal on Aug. 2 highlighting new findings from the State Department’s Bureau of ...